Alfresco 4.0 introduces enhanced cloud-scale performance and an open platform for social channel publishing, significantly improving user experience. It features a new Apache Solr-based index server for optimized content indexing and integrates with various social media and Google Docs for seamless collaboration. The version also includes advanced workflow engines, robust indexing control, and cross-platform support, although it faces some challenges with MS Office file previews.

1. ALFRESCO 4.0
VERSION

2. ❖ Cloud Scale Performance
❖ Open Platform For Social Channel Publishing
❖ Greater Adoption To Enhance User Experience
What’s New In
ALFRESCO 4.0

3. New features to enhance cloud-scale
deployment
Cloud Scale
Performance
Increase reliability and scalability.
Activity is a leading Java based BPMN 2.0 business process
server. It helps in automating business processing.
Now new alfresco index server is based on Apache Solr . It
separates indexing from content process.
Maximized Clustering-
Integrated Workflow -
High-Performance Indexing -

4. Open Platform For
Social Channel Publishing
Professionals can publish content and share updates to social sites including
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr and SlideShare. Advantages are-
Simpler
Processing-
It simplifies problem of multi-channel publishing.
Review-and-approve workflow controls publishing and enhance
security.
Lesser Tool
&Lesser
Errors -
It eliminates the need of social-specific tool and error-prone
“copy-and-paste” tool.

5. Greater Adoption To
Enhance User Experience
It offers high-level scalability, adoption and consumer-like user experience.
Drag and Drop Simplicity- With HTML5 enable browser, one can simple drag, drop
and move file all around.
Social
Features-
Mobile
Support-
Greater
Extensibility-
User can “Follow” content author or “Like” their favourite content.
Cloud Collaboration- Google Docs integration enhances
“Collaboration”.
New mobile users can get free iOS app and support of WebDAV and
CMIS platform.
Developers can easily extend, customized and scaled alfresco
interface.

6. How It Enhances
Users Experience!!!
Good Features to
CONSIDER……
❖ Rich & Creative Media
❖ Sharing “Customization and Extensibility"
❖ File System Transfer Receiver
❖ Social Content Publishing for MULTIPLE Channels.
❖ Flexible Management Tool

7. Repository comes up with...
❖ Solr Search Service
❖ Indexing Control
❖ Relational Data Base
❖ File System
❖ Other Repository Enhancement
REPOSITORY
BUILDIG BLOCKS

8. Benefits of Solr Searching-
❖ Eliminates need of in-transaction and multiple indexing
❖ Improve PATH query Performance
❖ Improved Cross-language Support
❖ Core service now use database backed queries rather than full text search
including file folder, person, copy, authority, Check-out-check-in
❖ Improved Delimiter matching in searches
Solr
Search Service

9. Benefits of Indexing Control Features.
❖ Control over “how content is indexed”.
❖ Control the property of index.
❖ Control content of index.
❖ User can disable indexing repository.
❖ You can manage bulk loading of INDEX.
Indexing Control

10. Other Repository Enhancement Features are given below-
❖ iBatis is now upgraded to MyBatis.
❖ CIFS content DiskDriver re-implementation.
❖ Shared Site data stores in relevant site notes.
❖ IMAP featuring enhances reliability and performance.
❖ Ensure utmost confidentiality for credentials (username/password)
Other Repository
Enhancement

11. Alfresco 4.0 embedded with two advanced workflow engine JBMP (JBoss Business
Process Management) and Activity.
Advanced workflow engine resolves various limitations.
❖ Create multistate workflow definition.
❖ Defined parallel workflow.
❖ Give notation for task and assignment.
❖ Eliminate limitation for approval or rejection.
WORK-FLOW

12. Releases of
Alfresco 4.0 (sub-versions)
Alfresco 4.0.a
Name of first sub
version:
Community Release:
Installation &
Download:
Prerequisites:
Workflow Engine:
Alfresco 4.0.a
First release of alfresco 4.0 version
Refer to [Download and Install Alfresco]
DB: MySQL 5.5 and PostgreSQL 9.0.2
App Server: Tomcat 6.0.29
JDK Version: 1.6 u20 x 64
Activity engine has been embedded as alternative to
jBPM.

13. Releases of Alfresco 4.0 (sub-versions)
❖ 4.0.a
❖ 4.0.b
❖ 4.0.c
❖ 4.0.d
❖ 4.0.e
Releases of Alfresco 4.2 (sub-versions)
❖ 4.2.a
❖ 4.2.b
❖ 4.2.c
❖ 4.2.d

14. Complete Installation of
Alfresco 4.2 Versions
1. Alfresco 4.2.a
2. Alfresco 4.2.b
3. Alfresco 4.2.c
4. Alfresco 4.2.d
alfresco-community-4.2.a-installer-win-x32.exe
alfresco-community-4.2.b-installer-win-x32.exe
alfresco-community-4.2.c-installer-win-x32.exe
alfresco-community-4.2.d-installer-win-x32.exe
Complete Installation
Site
Alfresco 4.2 Sub-
Versions

15. Alfresco Open
Source ECM Solution
Algoworks Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

16. Reliable “Open Source ECM
platform”
with no upfront cost!!!
We deploy and support our solution with proven methodologies
And frameworks including SOLAR, SIGMARG©, 5iKM3 and
SOLACE©
Our Offering Include:
Consultancy:
Solution
Framework:
Migration:
Alfresco support &
maintenance:
to formulate best-bit ECM
solution.
to plan competent ECM architecture including capacity
planning, performance audit and integration with other
system.
We’ve created a tool for bulk uploading and moving of
content. Alfresco development & deployment: includes
requirement analysis, system designing, development,
testing, deployment and configuration.
Offer full technical support and maintenance from Level 1 to
Level 3.

17. Q. Can we see “publishing history” of a given content with alfresco 4.0 version?
A. Yes! We can see all publishing channels such as when or to whom the asset has been sent.
Moreover, user can also un-publish the asset if required.
Q. Is Alfresco 4.0 version is efficient for “mobile version”?
A. Alfresco 4.0 offers free mobile application for iOS. It supports all the major collaboration
features such as user can view, upload, edit, search, comment, tag and even interact with
workflow.

18. Q. What is Alfresco “Index Server”?
A. Alfresco 4.0 introduced a new Apache Solr based index server. It helps removing all the
indexing load on alfresco server. It is highly useful in multi-node clustered environment.
Q. What is the major DRAWBACK with “alfresco 4.0 version”?
A. Professionals have to face problem in previewing MS Office files. Alfresco 4 employ
Open
Office to transform MS office file into preview format.

19. Q. Is Google Docs available in alfresco 4.0?
A. Yes! Alfresco 4.0 is integrated with Google Docs. The feature allows user to work online and
easily collaborate with other users.
Q. How Alfresco 4.0 bridges the gap between PC and Mac users and multimedia files?
A. Alfresco 4 supports more formats such as iWorkfiles. It allows user to view video or audio
files directly from the browser. It helps in bridging up the gap between Mac, PC user and
multimedia files.

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